APPOINTED; ELECTED; Etc.
Hans Raj Bhardwaj: He has been appointed as the Governor of Karnataka.
Rameshwar Thakur: He has been appointed as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
Devanand Konwar: He has been appointed as the Governor of Bihar.
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank: He has been elected as the Chief Minister of Uttarkhand.
Meira Kumar (Mrs): She has been elected as the first woman—who also happens to be a Dalit—as the Speaker of Lok Sabha. Her deputy would be BJP leader Karia Munda.
Pawan Kumar Bansal: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister, he has been given additional charge of Water Resources Ministry.
Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik: He has taken over as the Chief of Indian Air Force.
Goolam E. Vahanvati: He has been appointed as the Attorney-General of India. He is the first Muslim to hold the top law officer's post.
Gopal Subramaniam: Former additional Solicitor-General, he has been appointed as the Solicitor-General, the second most important law officer of the central government.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia: He has become the first deputy chairman of Planning Commission to retain the post after the government reconstituted the plan panel, which will also have three new members. The new entrants to the Commission are: Saumitra Chaudhuri, former member of the PM's Economic Advisory Council, Narendra Jadhav, honorary vice-chancellor of Pune University, and Mihir Shah, Secretary of Samaj Pragati Sahayog.
Kamlesh Chandra Chakrabarty: He has taken charge as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Nandan Nilekani: Co-chairman of Infosys, he has been appointed as the chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India, constituted to provide national identity cards to Indian citizens.
G.K. Pillai: He has been appointed as the Home Secretary of India.
Peter Varghese: He has been appointed as Australia's High Commissioner to India.
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan: External Affairs Minister of United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan: Sarod maestro. He was 88. His father, Baba Allauddin Khan, was one of the greatest names of Hindustani music.
Michael Jackson: The King of pop, who first enraptured audiences as a child star and eventually moon-walked his way into hearts of millions around the world. He was 50.
Shiv Charan Mathur: Governor of Assam.
Millivina Dean: The last survivor of the 1912 sinking of the "Titanic". She was 97. Dean was just nine weeks old when her family sold a pub they owned in London to travel on the maiden voyage of the passenger liner and begin a new life in Wichita, Kansas, in the United States. Her father was one of the 1,517 people who died. Dean, who was wrapped in a sack to protect her from the cold and lowered into a lifeboat, was the youngest of the 706 Titanic survivors.
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Rameshwar Thakur: He has been appointed as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
Devanand Konwar: He has been appointed as the Governor of Bihar.
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank: He has been elected as the Chief Minister of Uttarkhand.
Meira Kumar (Mrs): She has been elected as the first woman—who also happens to be a Dalit—as the Speaker of Lok Sabha. Her deputy would be BJP leader Karia Munda.
Pawan Kumar Bansal: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister, he has been given additional charge of Water Resources Ministry.
Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik: He has taken over as the Chief of Indian Air Force.
Goolam E. Vahanvati: He has been appointed as the Attorney-General of India. He is the first Muslim to hold the top law officer's post.
Gopal Subramaniam: Former additional Solicitor-General, he has been appointed as the Solicitor-General, the second most important law officer of the central government.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia: He has become the first deputy chairman of Planning Commission to retain the post after the government reconstituted the plan panel, which will also have three new members. The new entrants to the Commission are: Saumitra Chaudhuri, former member of the PM's Economic Advisory Council, Narendra Jadhav, honorary vice-chancellor of Pune University, and Mihir Shah, Secretary of Samaj Pragati Sahayog.
Kamlesh Chandra Chakrabarty: He has taken charge as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Nandan Nilekani: Co-chairman of Infosys, he has been appointed as the chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India, constituted to provide national identity cards to Indian citizens.
G.K. Pillai: He has been appointed as the Home Secretary of India.
Peter Varghese: He has been appointed as Australia's High Commissioner to India.
RESIGNED
Bhuvan Chand Khanduri: Chief Minister of Uttarkhand.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley: Prime Minister of Bhutan, he is the first head of a foreign State to visit India during the second term of the UPA government.
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan: External Affairs Minister of United Arab Emirates (UAE).
DIED
Habib Tanvir: World-renowned theatre personality. He was 86.
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan: Sarod maestro. He was 88. His father, Baba Allauddin Khan, was one of the greatest names of Hindustani music.
Michael Jackson: The King of pop, who first enraptured audiences as a child star and eventually moon-walked his way into hearts of millions around the world. He was 50.
Shiv Charan Mathur: Governor of Assam.
Millivina Dean: The last survivor of the 1912 sinking of the "Titanic". She was 97. Dean was just nine weeks old when her family sold a pub they owned in London to travel on the maiden voyage of the passenger liner and begin a new life in Wichita, Kansas, in the United States. Her father was one of the 1,517 people who died. Dean, who was wrapped in a sack to protect her from the cold and lowered into a lifeboat, was the youngest of the 706 Titanic survivors.
EVENTS
JUNE
1—An Air France plane with 228 persons on board crashes into Atlantic Ocean after hitting heavy turbulence during a flight from Rio de Janerio to Paris.
5—In raging violence in Pakistan's restive north-west, a suicide bomber blows himself in a mosque at Hayagai Sherqi in Upper Dir district near Peshawar, killing more than 40 people.
18—The rate of inflation, as measured by the wholesale price index, turns negative for the first time in over 30 years.
20—Security forces re-capture Lalgarh police post in West Bengal from Maoists. The post had been under the control of Maoists for last eight months.
21—Saina Nehwal scripts history by becoming the first Indian Badminton player to win a Super Series tournament.
29—In Central America's first military coup since the end of Cold war, Honduras President Manuel Zelaya is overthrown and exiled by the army.
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with warm regards
Harish Sati
Fortune Institute of International Business
Plot no. 5, Vasant Gaon, Rao Tula Ram Marg
Opp. R.R. Army Hospitial, New Delhi- 110057
Mobile No:- 09990646343
E-mail:- Harish.sati@gmail.com
1—An Air France plane with 228 persons on board crashes into Atlantic Ocean after hitting heavy turbulence during a flight from Rio de Janerio to Paris.
5—In raging violence in Pakistan's restive north-west, a suicide bomber blows himself in a mosque at Hayagai Sherqi in Upper Dir district near Peshawar, killing more than 40 people.
18—The rate of inflation, as measured by the wholesale price index, turns negative for the first time in over 30 years.
20—Security forces re-capture Lalgarh police post in West Bengal from Maoists. The post had been under the control of Maoists for last eight months.
21—Saina Nehwal scripts history by becoming the first Indian Badminton player to win a Super Series tournament.
29—In Central America's first military coup since the end of Cold war, Honduras President Manuel Zelaya is overthrown and exiled by the army.
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with warm regards
Harish Sati
Fortune Institute of International Business
Plot no. 5, Vasant Gaon, Rao Tula Ram Marg
Opp. R.R. Army Hospitial, New Delhi- 110057
Mobile No:- 09990646343
E-mail:- Harish.sati@gmail.com
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